In Memoriam 2020
December 10, 2020
The CUIMC community extends sympathy to the families and colleagues of these faculty and staff who died this year:
| Richard E. Behrman, MD, JD, chair of the VP&S Department of Pediatrics from 1971 to 1976, died May 17, 2020. | |
| Philip Brandt, PhD, VP&S professor emeritus of anatomy & cell biology, died Feb. 17, 2020. | |
| Lorna M. Breen, MD, VP&S assistant professor of emergency medicine at CUMC, died April 26, 2020. | |
| Ronald Brisman, MD, a VP&S faculty member in neurological surgery, died April 20, 2020. | |
| Robert E. Canfield, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of medicine, died Dec. 26, 2020. | |
| Ralph Dell, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of pediatrics, died Feb. 11, 2020. | |
| Yale Enson, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of clinical medicine, died Feb. 19, 2020. | |
| Frieda Feldman, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of radiology (in orthopedic surgery), died Jan. 12, 2020. | |
| Richard C. Friedman, MD, VP&S lecturer in psychiatry, died March 31, 2020. | |
| Lawrence Glassberg, MD, VP&S assistant professor of medicine, died April 4, 2020. | |
| Monroe Gliedman, DDS, CDM retired clinical professor, died April 3, 2020. View a video featuring Dr. Gliedman here. | |
| Victor Grann, MD, VP&S clinical professor of medicine and Mailman clinical professor of epidemiology and health policy & management, died Oct. 4, 2020. | |
| Martha Hooven, VP&S vice dean for administration, died June 12, 2020. | |
| William Johnson, MD, former VP&S associate professor of neurology, died Jan. 30, 2020. | |
| Desmond Jordan, MD, VP&S professor of anesthesiology at CUMC, died Nov. 2, 2020. | |
| David W. Kinne, MD, the David V. Habif Professor Emeritus of Surgery at VP&S, died March 14, 2020. | |
| Bohyun Lee, PhD, an analyst on the bioinformatics team at the Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, died July 29, 2020. A memorial service can be viewed here. | |
| Richard Levine, MD, VP&S professor of obstetrics & gynecology, died April 12, 2020. | |
| Paul A. Marks, MD, dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice President for Health Sciences at Columbia in the 1970s, died April 28, 2020. | |
| Douglas McAndrew, longtime staff member as photographer and IT support for the College of Dental Medicine before retiring in 2019, died June 12, 2020. | |
| David Rothman, PhD, the Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and director of the Division of Social Medicine and Professionalism in the Department of Medical Humanities & Ethics at VP&S, died Aug. 30, 2020. | |
| Louis Rubins, DDS, CDM retired clinical professor, died Nov. 11, 2020. | |
| David Schachter, MD, retired VP&S professor of physiology & cellular biophysics, died Dec. 1, 2020. | |
| Alfonse E. Sidhom, DDS, CDM assistant clinical professor, died March 17, 2020. | |
| Rosellen Taraborrelli, vice chair for administration and finance, VP&S Department of Psychiatry, died Oct. 24, 2020. |
